Early in the morning, we tried crossing a near-empty Kochi road, the narrow carriageway divided into two lanes by Metro rail pillars. Following the keep-left culture, like any prudent person, we were eyeing the vehicles speeding from a distance to our right side. At half the lane, from darkness emerged a scooter to our left, wrong side, a bolt from the blue. Taken aback, we narrowly escaped. The scooter, too, stopped. We asked the gentleman why he had resorted to such dangerous methods, avoiding a slightly longer U-turn. His classic reply, These days one shouldnt help anyone; I stopped only for you!

Some time ago, there was a hue and cry after a motorcyclist fell into a pit dug by a government department and got run over by a bus. A discerning walk through any road could identify a number of killer potholes, dangerously uneven surfaces and dilapidated drains and slabs. Who cares!

Bernard Shaw is right, We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

After a tragedy, the media make a noise but seldom do we follow up or do a stitch in time. The cost of our culpable lethargy is loss of precious human lives, apart from overburdening the fragile healthcare system and the precarious exchequer. In Gods Own Country itself, nearly 4,000 people die and over 50,000 are seriously injured in 40,000 road accidents every year.

The exponential increase in the number of vehicles consequent chaotic driving and parking makes us indifferent to traffic rules. Footpaths are all encroached upon or too filthy to walk. Pedestrians remain the most marginalised and vulnerable, whose very existence is challenged.

A sensible, integrated and time-bound system addressing these issues from the initial conception of the road itself is called for. This would ensure designing of safe roads, timely maintenance, and scientific licensing, regulation and enforcement that is technologically in-built.

We need to think out of the box. The gravity of the problem, involving the lives of tens of thousands of hapless victims and their poor families, warrants empowering the road safety commissioner with executive magisterial powers under provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code for the due fulfilment of the exigencies of road safety. The officials should be made squarely responsible for any lapse in this regard. Based on any complaint and information about any deficiency on any road that has the potential to cause an accident, the commissioner should act emergently directing the custodian of that road, whichever department, to cause the deficiency to be rectified forthwith to avoid danger.

There is no reason the above should not be an effective solution to such a baffling humanitarian problem. Complaints, information and directions could all be communicated electronically and notified on a participatory website that can be accessed by citizens and authorities.

Simple solutions often elude us. Most road accidents are man-made and preventable, if only we take care to tighten enforcement of rules, fill a pothole, put up a board of caution or mirror warning incoming vehicles. All these hardly require huge funds or time for sanction/execution.

(The author is a former IAS officer)

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New exhibition Among The Trees opens. Things to do

MADE IN ITALY: Cinema Made In Italy, an annual film festival celebrating Italian films, launches today. Highlights include If Only, about three siblings sent to live with their unconventional, broke Italian father, and Stolen Days, about a father and son road trip back to Southern Italy. Cine Lumiere (South Kensington), various prices, book ahead, 4-9 March

AMONG THE TREES: Hayward Gallery's new exhibition, Among The Trees, opens today, celebrating our relationship with trees and forests. The work of over 30 artists is on display, including sculpture, painting, installation, video and photography, dating from the 1960s to the present day. Hayward Gallery (Southbank Centre), 13.50, book ahead, 4 March-17 May

AUBREY BEARDSLEY: Tate Britain dedicates an exhibition to shocking and scandalous Victorian artist Aubrey Beardsley. It's the biggest Beardsley exhibition for over 50 years, with 200 of his risqu works on show, including illustrations for Oscar Wilde's Salom. Tate Britain, 16, book ahead, 4 March-25 May

LANGLANDS & BELL: Artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell open new exhibition, Degrees of Truth, looking at how architecture bears witness to the technological, political, economic and cultural relationships and changes of society. Newly-commissioned and borrowed artworks feature, including film, video, digital media, sculpture and installation works. Sir John Soane's Museum, free, just turn up, 4 March-31 May

HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY: As part of a series of International Women's Day walks, Cemetery Club leads a guided walk focusing on the gravestones of Hampstead Cemetery. Hear about actresses, illustrators, ballet dancers and writers buried there, whose stories are often forgotten or overlooked. Hampstead Cemetery, 15, book ahead, 11am-12.30pm

SPECTACULAR ASTROPHYSICS: Though astrophysics may sound rather complicated, everything that happens in the night sky is the result of simple laws coming into play together. So explains Professor of Astrophysics Katharine Blundell OBE in this Gresham College lecture. Museum of London, free, just turn up, 1pm-2pm

MARIE LLOYD: The V&A's lunchtime lecture puts the spotlight on 'Queen of the Halls', Marie Lloyd, on the 150th anniversary of the performer's birth. Alison Young and Christine Padwick from the British Music Hall Society discuss the life and career of the first female celebrity of popular entertainment, who performed for Edward VII, George Bernard Shaw and TS Eliot, among others. V&A Museum (South Kensington), free, just turn up, 1pm-1.45pm

TWILIGHT TOURS: There's a rare chance to visit the Royal Hospital Chelsea by twilight on a guided tour, led by one of the Chelsea Pensioners themselves. Visit the State Apartments and the Chapel, hearing the stories of former residents, and finish up with a drink at the Chelsea Pensioners Club. Royal Hospital Chelsea, 28, book ahead, 6pm/7pm

TRIBUTE INK: Stay late at National Army Museum, which has an evening opening on the theme of tattoos. Find out about the art, history and meaning of body inkings in the Armed Forces. Serving soldiers, Chelsea Pensioners and art historians are among those taking part in talks and panel discussions. National Army Museum (Chelsea), free, book ahead, 6.30pm-9.30pm

OUTER SPACE: NASA scientist and astronaut Kathryn Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space. Here, she discusses her career, including her experiences of living in space, taking off in a space shuttle, and making repairs to complex scientific instruments. Conway Hall (Holborn), 30-42.50, book ahead, 6.45pm-8pm

MISBEHAVIOUR: Catch a preview screening of new film Misbehaviour, about a team of women who plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World competition in London. The screening launches British Librarys new Unfinished Business: The Fight for Womens Rights events season, and is followed by Q+A with its director Philippa Lowthorpe and Sally Alexander, who was central to the real-life story the film depicts. Regent Street Cinema, 15, book ahead, 7.30pm-10.30pm

Our idiosyncratic weather forecaster keeps you up to date on London's skies.

The weather is broken. You've probably noticed. It's been stuck on the same setting for days, a grim cycle of showers, grey skies and chilly winds. I've called a servicing centre in Edgware and they're going to take a look, but they suspect it will need a spare part. Apparently, that hail we got a few days ago has clogged up a filter somewhere, and everything's borked. Bloody typical the warranty only ran out last week.

Mr Attlee can be reached by emailing hello@londonist.com; lord knows why you'd want to.

Our resident tube fancier dishes out daily thoughts on the London Underground.

Time for my never-popular 'name the station from the Google screengrab' game. Which underground station have I got my back towards in the above image? Send answers on Twitter to @HeckTube for your chance to win the foil disk from inside today's bottle of milk (which is slightly torn and sodden but might find service in a child's craft project).

Book ahead for Fourpure Global Gathering Festival on 21 March. Held at Fourpure Brewery in Bermondsey, with kegs donated by various breweries, the event raises money for Global Gathering's work supplying clean drinking water in Malawi. Find out more and sign up.

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Ken Ludwig, author of Murder on the Orient Express, gave up the law after the success of Lend Me a Tenor

Murder on the Orient Express: Continues through March 8 at Asolo Repertory Theatre, 5555 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Most performances are sold out. 941-351-8000; asolorep.org

After the major premieres of his new plays, Ken Ludwig usually doesnt see them again.

With many of his 28 plays frequently produced at professional and community theaters, he would never have time to write if he checked in on new productions even occasionally.

But he came to Sarasota this month to see Asolo Repertory Theatres sold-out production of Murder on the Orient Express, his adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel, because Ive heard so many wonderful things about this theater from lots of different sources, friends who have worked here or seen shows here.

While here, he saw all three Asolo Rep shows now in production, met the cast of Orient Express and its director, Peter Amster, had a lunch with Producing Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards.

Ludwig said hes always delighted to see how people interpret the plays. Love seeing people doing new things with my work.

And he was particularly excited about the Asolo Rep production. Im not just saying this because Im sitting in the theater, but I thought everything about it was wonderful. The set was incredible, the lighting, the direction. Each character was so well defined. I thought it had a terrific thrust to it. The engine got started and didnt let up.

Ludwig, who is best known as the author of the comedies Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo and the musical Crazy for You, was commissioned to write the play by Agatha Christies estate.

His agent was contacted about five years ago by Christies grandson, Matthew Pritchard, who was interested in seeing a new stage adaptation of her work.

They were starting to do some new television projects and OKd a three-movie deal with Kenneth Branagh, and apparently they wanted to do something new on stage, Ludwig said in an interview in the lobby while an audience watched his play inside the theater.

Hes not exactly sure why he was asked perhaps it was the Edgar Award he received from the Mystery Writers of America for his comic mystery The Games Afoot, which Asolo Rep produced in 2013. Maybe that helped them find me.

Ludwig was given a choice of any Christie book and he chose Orient Express because Its a terrific story and it has a great title.

The result was a mystery with the kind of comical touches audiences have come to expect from this lawyer-turned-playwright. It had its world premiere in 2017 at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.J.

I tried to very much consciously to tell the story with as much integrity as I could, and I didnt think of it being a comedy at all, but all the characters are basically funny, even in the novel, Ludwig said. Not laugh a minute funny, but when you tell a story about these very eccentric people, put them on the stage and clothe them, humor naturally emerges.

Ludwig isnt sure why more new murder mysteries arent being produced because audiences love them. Ive thought seriously about writing another mystery for the stage and toying around in my notes on a pad. Its one of three or four things Im thinking of turning into a play.

The line between mystery and comedy is a thin one, he said.

Its hard to write a mystery that wouldnt have some laughs in it. Hercule Poirot, for example, is innately a comic character. He preens, he fixes his mustache, he wears a hairnet. Watson is a comic creation who talks about Holmes as this completely eccentric madman, who in a sense is also a comic creation. If you write a really good play about eccentric people youre in a comic world.

Christie wrote stage plays herself, most notably The Mousetrap, which has been running in London since 1952 and is approaching its 70th anniversary.

Ludwig studies the work of great playwrights, including William Shakespeare, George Farquhar, Oliver Goldsmith, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward to figure out why theyre masterpieces. Usually its because the playwright really knew what he or she was doing. They didnt happen to fall into it and happen to write Pygmalion. Shaw understood what made great theater. He was a critic and he worked like a dog at it.

He may not follow all the productions of his plays, but Ludwig is involved up to my eyeballs when a new one is getting ready for production. Im working with the director, the designers, the cast and doing any rewrites.

His most recent play is also his most personal, Dear Jack. Dear Louise, in which two actors tell the story of my parents courtship through letters, because they met through letters and got to know each other before they ever met in person. Its very different from anything Ive written before.

It had its premiere in December at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., where critics and audiences greeted it warmly.

Ludwig was working as a lawyer in Washington when he started writing plays.

I had this day job and I was writing in the morning from 4-8 and then Id put on my suit and go to work at the law firm.

His first plays were done in church basements and tiny off-off-Broadway type places, he said. Then came his farce Lend Me a Tenor, his fourth or fifth play, which opened in 1986 in London and three years later on Broadway, leading to countless productions around the country.

It took off and I was able to leave the law, he said. I was not an instant success. I paid my dues in the sense that I worked really hard to become a playwright over a 4-5 year period.

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By James A. Haught

This is the third segment of a series on renowned skeptics throughout history. These profiles are drawn from 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People With the Courage to Doubt, Prometheus Books, 1996.

Of course, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a Christian. It was a crime to be otherwise, in a time when church attendance was enforced by law. But whether he believed the supernatural dogmas remains a topic of debate.

Although there are few records of his life, Shakespeare undoubtedly received Anglican indoctrination as a schoolboy at Stratford, eighty miles northwest of London. All pupils were required to memorize and recite long segments of scripture.

Shakespeare married, but evidently left his wife and children behind in Stratford when he went to London in the 1590s. He began writing poetry, and became involved in theater, both as actor and playwright.

His plays contain references to God, as well as to ghosts, fairies and witches. What he personally believed seems impossible to learn. Obviously, Shakespeare did not share the beliefs of Englands Puritans, who sought everywhere to stamp out play-acting and theater-going as wicked. For a time, he lived in the bawdy Bankside district of London, hotbed of prostitution and carousal; yet some researchers say Shakespeare lived more sedately than Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and other theater colleagues.

Near his death, after Shakespeare had grown wealthy and returned to his family in Stratford, he wrote a traditional Christian testimonial into his last will. Authorities disagree over whether it was sincere, or a formality. A half-century after his death, an Oxford chaplain wrote that Shakespeare died a papist but most scholars doubt this assertion. Perhaps, like many people, the bard wavered in matters of religion. A definite answer seems unknowable.

In Shakespeares plays, believers tend to see evidence of faith, and skeptics signs of doubt. At the height of the Enlightenment, freethinker Joseph Ritson wrote that Shakespeare was free from the reigning superstition of his time and subscribed to no temporary religion, neither Papish or Protestant, Paganism or Christianity.

Atheistic philosopher George Santayana wrote an essay titled Absence of Religion in Shakespeare, commenting on the bards strange insensibility to religion. Santayana said it is remarkable that we should have to search through all the works of Shakespeare to find half a dozen passages that have so much as a religious sound, and that even these passages, upon examination, should prove not to be the expression of any deep religious conception. At another time, Santayana remarked: For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

Playwright George Bernard Shaw observed: Shakespeare had no conscious religion.

As for the meaning of life, in all his profound passages, Shakespeare never says that the purpose of human existence is to be saved by the mystical Jesus and go to heaven. Instead, in Macbeths great lament (Act 5, Scene 5), he bitterly contends that each life proceeds to oblivion without ultimate meaning. The soliloquy is a classic of existentialism:

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Lifes but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing.

Shakespeares comments on religion:

In religion, what damned error but some sober brow will bless it, and approve it with a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament? The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 2

Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnishd faces. ibid, Act 2, Scene 5

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian. . . . Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 3

It is an heretic that makes the fire, not she which burns in it. The Winters Tale, Act 2, Scene 3

Thou villain, thou art full of piety. Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 2

His worst fault is, hes given to prayer; he is something peevish that way. The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 4

Scurvy jack-dog priest! By gar, me vill cut his ears. ibid, Act 2, Scene 3

I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith. Henry VI, Act 5, Scene 1

Modest doubt is calld the beacon of the wise. Troilus and Cressida, Act 2, Scene 2

Thou art a proud traitor, priest gleaning all of the lands wealth into one, into your own hands, cardinal, by extortion.Ill startle you worse than the sacring bell, when the brown wench lay kissing in your arms, lord cardinal. Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 2

We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1

I tell thee, churlish priest, a ministering angel shall my sister be, when thou liest howling. Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1

(Haught is editor emeritus of West Virginias largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette-Mail, and a weekly contributor to Daylight Atheism.)

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Lot 43, Wharton Esherick (American, 1887-1970) The Important "Thunder Table" for Hedgerow Theatre, Paoli, Pennsylvania, 1929. Oak, Carved signature, date and inscription: "WE+HEDGEROW MCMXXIX" Freeman's

Notable works from the historic Hedgerow Theatre by renowned American artist and woodworker Wharton Esherick will come to auction for the first time on March 31 in Philadelphia. Representing decades of creative exchange between the master woodworker and the Theatre, this significant collection leads Freemans forthcoming Design auction. The collectionwhich includes eight of Eshericks earliest Hammer-Handle chairs and the important Thunder Table from 1929celebrates Eshericks lengthy and seminal relationship with the Theatre and demonstrates its considerable influence on his evolution as an artist and craftsman.

Freemans is honored to present these exemplary pieces of Pennsylvanias cultural history at auction. Proceeds from the sale will benefit future preservation of Hedgerow Theatre and will assist them in fulfilling their mission as a professional theatre ensemble and theatre school as well as a cultural center. It will enable them to continue their steadfast commitment to progress, education, and artistic excellence that has impacted countless cultural institutions and artists nationwide for nearly a century. (View this 1948 State Department Documentary Film about Hedgerow Theatre.)

ESHERICK & HEDGEROW

Wharton Esherick (1887-1970), heralded as the Dean of American Craftsmen and among the vanguard of the Studio Furniture Movement, began working in wood at the close of the Arts & Crafts Movement. Although embracing the ideology that valued the hand-made over the industrially produced, he broke with the movements more traditional aesthetic, creating sculptural and cutting-edge forms. Esherick was introduced to the Hedgerow Theatre in nearby Rose Valley, Pennsylvania and to its founding Artistic Director Jasper Deeter (1893-1972) in 1923.

Esherick began designing pieces for the Hedgerow Theatre in exchange for his daughters acting lessons. Initially involved in set, costume and lighting design, Esherick went on to create woodblock posters for various productions and furniture for both the Theatre and nearby Hedgerow House, which served as the home to Theatre company members. Over the years, the Theatres Green Room housed many temporary and permanent works by Esherick, operating as an unofficial gallery and exhibition space for the artist.

Freeman's

COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS

Leading the auction is the iconic Thunder Table, carved by Esherick in 1929 in celebration of the success of the Theatres production of Thunder on the Left in which his daughter Mary appeared. The table stands on two splayed and hinged legs; its top is composed of two long, found wooden boards, each with a perceptibly warped end. Having spent much of his time on the Theatres balcony sketching the various dancers and actors on stage, Esherick carved a minimalist curvilinear drawing of the plays leading actors into one of the tables ends. The Thunder Table has been on display in the Theatres Green Room for many years before which it had been in use by decades of actors and visitors.

Also on offer is the set of stairs Esherick built in the Theatres former lobby in the mid-1930s to create more room for the box office. As a replacement for the old set of Arts & Crafts stairs, he designed and built one of his signature idiosyncratic staircases, with gently curving steps fanning out from a two-foot central column. Because of their nontraditional design, Eshericks stairs failed to pass fire-code inspection and were deemed unusable for ushering theatergoers from the lobby to the balcony. Other examples of Eshericks staircases are presently in the collections of the Wolfsonian-FIU in Miami Beach, Florida; the Modernism Museum in Mount Dora, Florida; and the Wharton Esherick Museum in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Additional works on offer include a Sawbuck Table used at Hedgerow House; a Trestle Table that purportedly came from Eshericks own collection; and eight Hammer-Handle chairs. The chairs, assembled in part from found axe and hammer handles by Esherick, are among the most iconic and significant of his creations; examples are presently in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Wharton Esherick Museum in Chester County, Pennsylvania; The Museum of Art & Design in New York, New York; and the Longhouse Reserve in Long Island, New York, among others.

VIEWING & EXHIBITIONS

The Thunder Table is presently on view in Freemans new flagship gallery at 2400 Market Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Additional highlights from the Hedgerow Theatre Collection will be on view in Freemans Main Line Gallery in Wayne, Pennsylvania beginning February 10. The full exhibition for the March 31 Design Auction will be open to the public March 27-30 at 2400 Market Street. The staircase will remain at Hedgerow Theatre prior to the auction; please contact Freemans to schedule an appointment for viewing.

ABOUT HEDGEROW THEATRE

Established in 1923 in the Rose Valley Arts and Crafts Community, Hedgerow Theatre is Americas longest serving Ensemble Repertory Theatre. Founded by visionary actor/director Jasper Deeter as a haven for cutting-edge artists of the early 20th century, the theatre quickly gained a national and international reputation, attracting era-defining artists such as Eugene ONeill, Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Dreiser, Bertolt Brecht, and Wharton Esherick. Hedgerow has and continues to serve as a place where artists can both live and work, ensuring that active artists remain central to the community originally conceived as a creative utopia. Today, Hedgerows resident ensemble of artists, unique in America, present professional productions from across the range of theatre, classic to contemporary. Hedgerow's Theatre School, formally established in 1935, is a robust year-round theatre education program that serves youth and adults, with a special focus on creativity and critical thinking. Hedgerow is known for its pioneering role in the establishment of the not-for-profit theatre movement in America. Serving as a pillar for the arts community for 97 years, it now stands as a preeminent creative landmark in the greater Philadelphia area.

ABOUT FREEMANS

Freemans has been a part of the fabric of Philadelphia since 1805, helping generations of clients in the buying and selling of fine and decorative arts, jewelry & modern design. Today, they are an international auction house with a year-round sale season and a team of specialists committed to personalized service. Freemans provides solutions for the changing dynamics of a family or businessvaluing a single item, an entire estate, personal property, or a corporate collection. With both appraisal and auction services, Freemans is dedicated to providing the best experience for our clients.

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FREEMAN'S TO SELL NOTABLE WORKS BY WHARTON ESHERICK FROM HISTORIC HEDGEROW THEATRE COLLECTION - ArtfixDaily

THE Evening Times writer, Meg Munro, a self-confessed middle-aged bobbysoxer, had interviewed many of the leading male stars of her era.

Johnny Ray has sung to me, she wrote in March, 1956. Guy Mitchell has kissed me. Howard Keel has held my hand in his. Bob Hope has taken me in his arms, and the Olivier charm (which so enchanted the OTHER Monroe) has been switched in my direction -- and I can proudly record not one single faint or even the tiniest scream.

But when it comes to Mr Power -- Mr Tyrone Power of the black, black hair and blue Irish eyes -- oh, my goodness me, I weaken, I wilt, I ALMOST give a real bobbysoxer scream!

You can laugh if you like, but when you wait 20 years to meet the man of your dreams, take it from me, its a serious moment.

So when I went backstage at the Kings Theatre after the first performance of The Devils Disciple, little wonder that my knees knocked a little when I knocked on the door of Mr Powers dressing-room. Once inside, how did I find Mr Power? Well, bias apart, you can take it from me that Mr Power is very nice, oh my goodness me, yes, VERY NICE. Moreover, hes highly intelligent and a sheer joy to interview.

Power, clad in a midnight blue robe, told Munro (over the shrieks of the genuine bobbysoxers waiting outside the theatre) said that he liked to spend his leisure time flying his own plane to Mexico or down to South America. I like to get away from people into quiet places. I like to lie on a beach in the sun; I like to go deep-sea fishing, but best of all I like to work ... I become intolerable to myself if Ive been away from work for more than three weeks.

Power, who had been born in Cincinnati, Ohio, had made his name as an actor on Broadway before turning to Hollywood. He became an overnight film star with his performance in Lloyds of London (1936). Subsequent films included The Mark of Zorro (1940, the year in which he was Hollywoods top box-office draw), Blood and Sand (1941), and The Sun Also Rises (1957). But he made repeated returns to the stage for dramas such as The Devils Disciple, by George Bernard Shaw.

The 1956 run of the play took Power to Edinburgh and Glasgow; he is photographed here holding onto his hat on a visit to windy Edinburgh Castle. This papers drama critic watched the opening night of the week-long run at the Kings, in Glasgow. The greatest curiosity, he wrote, is the appearance of Tyrone Power as Dick Dudgeon, a Devils Disciple of dashing appearance and some panache, though wanting perhaps a little of the zeal which Shaw meant there to be in his preacher-turned-inside-out.

Power died in November 1958, aged 44, having suffered a heart attack during the filming, in Spain, of the epic, Solomon and Sheba.

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Those were the days - Tyrone Power in Scotland, 1956 - HeraldScotland

All week Picture Britain is on display in Borough Market

SHAPE THE WORLD: All this week, LSE hosts Shape The World, a festival of free events looking at how the social sciences can make the world a better place. Highlights throughout the week include Tottenham MP David Lammy on exploring his own heritage, a preview of the American presidential race, and a look at how factors such as economic growth are shaping London. LSE (Holborn), free, book ahead, 2-7 March

I AM A WOMXN: Waterstones launches new exhibition I Am A Womxn, by Shado Magazine. The publication has brought together work by 18 photographers from around the world, all celebrating the intersectionalities of womanhood, and the different ways in which people identify as a woman. Waterstones Gower Street, free, just turn up, 2 March-30 April

OUR POVERTY: Photography exhibition Picture Britain: Our People, Our Poverty celebrates the strength and resilience of people swept into poverty in this country. See 20 photos by Jillian Edelstein of people from different regions, with their stories captured by Stephen Armstrong. Borough Market, free, just turn up, until 7 March

FORGOTTEN VICTIMS: Last chance to see The Wiener Holocaust Library's exhibition Forgotten Victims, focusing on the genocide carried out against the Roma and Sinti communities in Europe during the Nazi era. The 'forgotten Holocaust' resulted in the persecution and murder of up to 500,000 people, and documents, photos and eyewitness accounts are used here to tell their stories. Wiener Holocaust Library (Russell Square), free, just turn up, until 11 March

CAMELLIA SHOW: Chiswick House & Gardens showcases its rare and historic plants at the annual Camellia Show. 33 different varieties are on show in the listed conservatory, and you can enter a raffle for a chance to name an as-yet-unlisted species. Chiswick House & Gardens, free entry to gardens (donations welcome), just turn up, until 22 March

LIONEL RICH TEA: We're delighted that Drink, Shop & Do has brought back its punny craft event, Lionel Rich Tea. Give Lionel Richie his deserved place in the biscuit hall of fame by recreating his likeness on a Rich Tea biscuit. There's a prize at the end for the best Lionel likeness. Drink, Shop & Do (King's Cross), 5, book ahead, from 6pm

NOT ABOUT THE BURQA: 12 months on from the publication of the book she edited, It's Not About The Burqa, British writer and activist Mariam Khan and a panel of guest speakers discuss what's changed since then. The book is a response to David Camerons assumption of general submissiveness of Muslim women, and features essays about faith, love, feminism, sex and queer identity, all true accounts from Muslim women. Foyles Charing Cross Road 5 (or 9.99 with book), book ahead, 6.30pm-8pm

GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE: Can gender equality help solve climate change? Environment Professor Jacqueline McGlade explains why the empowerment and education of women leads to them dedicating more resources to health and education than men. Museum of London, free, just turn up, 6pm-7pm

SMOTHERHOOD: Former clinical psychologist turned thriller author Bev Thomas discusses her debut book, A Good Enough Mother. It's the story of a director of therapy unit who discovers that a newly referred patient is the image of her son who has been missing a while. West End Lane Books (West Hampstead), free, book ahead, 7.30pm

MODERN WITCHCRAFT: London Fortean Society tackles the topic of modern witchcraft in this month's meet-up. Anthropologist Dr Helen Cornish of Goldsmiths College discusses claims made by Margaret Murray, that modern witchcraft is a direct continuation from an archaic pan-European fertility cult. The Miller (London Bridge), 5/2, book ahead, 8pm

SPECTACULAR ASTROPHYSICS: Though astrophysics all sounds rather complicated, everything that happens in the night sky is the result of a whole series of simple laws coming into play together. So explains Professor of Astrophysics Katharine Blundell OBE in this Gresham College lecture. Museum of London, free, just turn up, 1pm-2pm

MARIE LLOYD: The V&A's lunchtime lecture puts the spotlight on 'Queen of the Halls', Marie Lloyd, on the 150th anniversary of the performer's birth. Alison Young and Christine Padwick from the British Music Hall Society discuss the life and career of the first female celebrity of popular entertainment, who performed for Edward VII, George Bernard Shaw and T. S. Eliot, among others. V&A Museum (South Kensington), free, just turn up, 1pm-1.45pm

TRIBUTE INK: Stay late at National Army Museum, which has an evening opening on the theme of tattoos. Find out about the art, history and meaning of body inkings in the Armed Forces. Serving soldiers, Chelsea Pensioners and art historians are among those taking part in talks and panel discussions. National Army Museum (Chelsea), free, book ahead, 6.30pm-9.30pm

HEAR IT LIVE: Every Thursday afternoon, Horniman Museum hosts free performances and talks based on the musical instruments in its collection, including a 1772 Kirckman harpsichord. Today, harpsichord and organ player Josef Laming performs. Horniman Museum (Forest Hill), free, just turn up, 3.30pm-4pm

POWER OF PRINT: London College of Communication lecturer Jess Baines talks about east London's alternative printing initiatives between the early 1970s and 1990s. Learn about the wider cultural and political context of these often radical and social movements. Nunnery Gallery (Bow), 5, book ahead, 7pm-9pm

CUNNING FOLK: Watch a screening of 1974 release Akenfield at this month's Cunning Folk Film Club. An adaptation of the Ronald Blythe book, it's set in the Suffolk village of the same name, and tells the story of a farming family who have lived for generations in village. Balham Bowls Club, 5, book ahead, 8pm

WOMEN IN FOCUS: To coincide with International Women's Day, three-day festival Women In Focus comes to Poplar. Events include a musical evening by a line-up of all female-identifying artists, and a burlesque dance class led by the reigning Queen of Burlesque Idol UK 2019. Poplar Union, free, book ahead, 6-8 March

UNKNOWN FIELD MARSHAL: Ever heard of Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd? He was Chief of Staff of the British Fourth Army from 1915 to 1918, and Chief of the Imperial General Staff between 1933-1935 find out more about his military career and contributions at this free talk by author Rodney Atwood. National Army Museum (Chelsea), free, book ahead, 11.30am

BROCKLEY MAX FUNDRAISER: Local festival Brockley Max is fundraising to secure its future. Tonight, DJs Giles Frampton (aka mrTidy) and Dre (aka The Drezone) host a night of funk, soul, disco and house music, with all money raised going back to Brockley Max. Fox & Firkin (Lewisham), 5, book ahead, 9pm

CRAFTY FOX MARKET: Another month, another round of small, local businesses to support at Crafty Fox Market. It's free entry to browse the stalls at this month's event, which include artists specialising in ceramics, embroidery and linescapes, among many other mediums. Mercato Metropolitano (Elephant & Castle), free entry, just turn up, 7-8 March

#IDENTITY FESTIVAL: Celebrate International Womens Day by exploring the experiences of British-Bangladeshi women and children at free family event, #Identity Festival. Share recipes in a community recipe book, make your own traditional hand fan, or get some henna hand art, among other activities. Museum of London Docklands, free, just turn up, 12pm

ROMANTICS IN SUSSEX: Professor Alexandra Harris gives the annual Keats Foundation Lecture, looking at the role which Chichester played in inspiring Romantic poets Keats, Blake and William Collins. The latter spent most of his life in the Sussex town, and the other two wrote about it in their work. Keats House (Hampstead), free, book ahead, 5pm-6.30pm

VINTAGE FASHION: Rummage through rails of retro clobber at the Frock Me! Vintage Fashion Fair. Over 60 vintage fashion dealers set up stall, with items dating from the 1900s onwards. Clothing from the likes of Chanel and Biba has been on sale at past events, as well as more affordable pieces.Kensington Town Hall, 5/3, book ahead, 11am-5.30pm

CRAFTS DOG SHOW: No, that's not a typo BrewDog puts its own twist on a dog show, inviting pooches and their owners to an event which raises money for abandoned hunting dogs in Spain. Four-legged attendees can compete in categories such as 'best trick' and 'goofiest grin', with BrewBucks vouchers for the winners. BrewDog Tower Hill, 3 entry, just turn up, 12pm-6pm

GIRLS CAN: For International Women's Day, a team of female artists attempts to redress the gender imbalance in graffiti culture by running free activities to get women into street art. The event results in a large-scale public mural featuring symbols or words which are considered stereotypically male. Leake Street (Waterloo), free, book ahead, 1pm-5pm

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MOSCOW, March 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrated Russian author and philosopher Zinovia Dushkova, Ph.D., was recently named as one of the "100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in 2020" by Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine. The London-based metaphysical authority publishes the yearly list to distinguish living spiritual teachers. Ranked as number 49 among the Dalai Lama, Pope Francis, Eckhart Tolle, Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra, Dr. Dushkova is the first woman from Russia and the former USSR countries to enter the list.

With a rapidly expanding American readership, Dr. Dushkova is already famed in her native Russia and throughout the post-Soviet countries for a vast body of written work that includes approximately 60 books. She was introduced to American readers with her bestseller, "The Book of Secret Wisdom," despite initial rejections by publishers.

Zinovia Dushkova: A Journey of the Heart

A survivor of domestic violence from both childhood and marriage, Dr. Dushkova became a single mother of two in Soviet Russia. In 1992, she began to realize her goal in life was to become a world healer through love and compassion. Since then, she has travelled extensively around the globe, visiting secret and deeply holy sites in Tibet, Mongolia, Nepal, India and many other countries in both the East and West. Her 60-plus-volume oeuvre resulting from those travels represents a living legacy of light and love, centered in the heart.

Dr. Dushkova is often regarded by many experts as one of the spiritual successors of Helena Blavatsky, the 19th century creator of the Theosophical Society. This tradition influenced many of the greatest minds and personalities of the 20th century, including Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and Elvis Presley. The ultimate goal of Dr. Dushkova's work is to bring humanity toward divine wisdom, through the cultivation of qualities like love and compassion.

According to Dr. Dushkova, humanity currently faces great challenges, since the Solar System is approaching an invisible spiritual sun. Its energies gradually cause global warming on Earth and only loving hearts are able to assimilate them. If human hearts fail to transmute these cosmic energies, this results not only in increasing cardiovascular and cancerous diseases, but also in natural disasters and epidemics, such as the coronavirus COVID-2019 outbreak. To aid people, she created her magnum opus, "The Teaching of the Heart" series an overarching, rich exploration of all the ways by which the human heart can lead humanity to greater love, compassion, joy, connection and spiritual transformation.

Zinovia Dushkova: Self-Publishing Success

Dr. Dushkova's personal story is one of love and perseverance; a theme that she folds into her teachings as a way to explain a deep desire to illuminate love, and bring light to the darkest places of the human psyche. Her titles are often described as "books full of light," while readers are attracted to the unusual depth found in seemingly simplistic expressions of thought. Dr. Dushkova is also a poet, bringing beauty and musicality of language that distinguishes her creations.

Originally rejected by dozens of establishment publishers, Dr. Dushkova has since gone on to great popular success, selling nearly 100,000 copies of her award-winning English titles in multiple formats. She is rapidly gracing bookshelves all across the U.S., the U.K. and Canada, and is lauded as a living spiritual treasure. So far, "The Book of Secret Wisdom," "Parables from Shambhala," "The Secret Book of Dzyan," and the ten books of "The Teaching of the Heart," have been published in English by Radiant Books. Learn more about Dr. Dushkova at: http://www.dushkova.com/en.

About Radiant Books

Radiant Books is an imprint of Dushkova Publishing LLC, created in 2015 to publish English editions of Dr. Dushkova's work. Learn more at: http://www.RadiantBooks.org.

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Grant Cardone's 10X Growth Conference has become an annual event

LAS VEGAS (PRWEB) February 26, 2020

Grant Cardone and an array of A-list celebrity speakers just finished presenting to over 12,000 attendees at the Mandalay Bay for the 4th annual 10X Growth Conference. The massive three-day event for business owners and entrepreneurs brought in NBA legend Magic Johnson, comedian Kevin Hart, record executive Scooter Braun, actor John Travolta, UFCs Dana White, boxer Floyd Mayweather, music performers Snoop Dogg, Usher, and Rick Ross, plus an array of sales and marketing experts who shared strategies and tactics on how to build and scale a business.

The conference was held from February 21-23, 2020 with a private mastermind that followed for top entrepreneurs to bounce business ideas off of sales expert Grant Cardone, who created the 10X movement and the popular annual 10X Growth Conference. The entire event is beginning to blur the lines between entertainment and business.

One of my main objectives with this conference was to erase the line between business and entertainment. Whether you consider yourself an artist and youre into music, painting, drawing, writing, theatre, dance, photography, design, modeling, or whether you consider yourself in the world of business with a title in sales, marketing, IT, management, accounting and finance, human resourcesthe 10X Growth Conference will show you how to improve what you do, but also how to merge art into your business and business into your art. Grant Cardone

The 10X Growth Conference was created not just to be the top business conference in the worldbut an entertaining time with multiple parties and performances. This years event included a private party in Grant Cardones private jet air hangar at McCarran airport for the Premier and Diamond level ticket holders plus multiple VIP networking events that were held throughout the entire weekend on the Strip.

Previously in 2019, the 10X Growth Conference was held in Miami at Marlins Park, where 34,000 entrepreneurs gathered in a baseball stadium to hear speakers such as Steve Harvey, John Maxwell, and Daymond John.

Tickets for 10X Growth Conference 2021 are already on sale at an early-bird discount at https://10xgrowthcon.com/gc5/

About Grant Cardone

CEO of Cardone Capital, international speaker, entrepreneur andauthor ofThe 10X Rule& creator of 21 best-selling business programs, Grant Cardone owns & operates seven privately held companies and a $1.5B portfolio of multifamily properties. Named the #1 marketer to watch by Forbes Magazine, Cardone is also the founder of The 10X Movement & The 10X Growth Conference, the worlds largest business & entrepreneur conference.

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Earnings Call Scheduled for 8:00 a.m. ET on March 9, 2020

BEIJING, March 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- China Online Education Group ("51Talk", or the "Company") (NYSE: COE), a leading online education platform inChina, with core expertise in English education, today announced that it will report its fourth quarter and full year 2019 unaudited financial results onMonday, March 9, 2020, before the open of U.S. markets.

The Company's management will host an earnings conference call at8:00 a.m.U.S. Eastern Time onMarch 9, 2020(8:00 p.m.Beijing/Hong Kongtime onMarch 9, 2020).

Dial-in details for the earnings conference call are as follows:

United States Toll:

1-866-264-5888

International:

1-412-317-5226

Mainland China Toll:

400-120-1203

Hong Kong Toll:

800-905-945

Hong Kong-Local Toll:

852-3018-4992

Participants should dial-in at least 5 minutes before the scheduled start time and ask to be connected to the call for "China Online Education Group."

Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Company's investor relations website athttp://ir.51talk.com.

A replay of the conference call will be accessible approximately one hour after the conclusion of the live call until March 16, 2020, by dialing the following telephone numbers:

United States Toll:

1-877-344-7529

International Toll:

1-412-317-0088

Canada Toll Free:

855-669-9658

Replay Access Code:

10139863

About China Online Education Group

China Online Education Group (NYSE: COE) is a leading online education platform in China, with core expertise in English education. The Company's mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable. The Company's online and mobile education platforms enable students across China to take live interactive English lessons with overseas foreign teachers, on demand. The Company connects its students with a large pool of highly qualified foreign teachers that it assembled using a shared economy approach, and employs student and teacher feedback and data analytics to deliver a personalized learning experience to its students.

For more information, please visithttp://ir.51talk.com.

For investor and media inquiries, please contact:

China Online Education Group Investor Relations +86 (10) 8342-6262 ir@51talk.com

The Piacente Group, Inc. Brandi Piacente +86 (10) 6508-0677 +1-212-481-2050 51talk@tpg-ir.com

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